I guess a lot of people are reading books/manga so i ve thought of opening this thread because we already have a movie/series random talk which is going well and im a big fan of reading.

this thread has the same purpose as the movie/series thread which was posted by my dear morgana. --> s discussing and talking about books..

i hope we all will enjoy it.

so here we go:

im a big fan of a lot of books and especially manga!!! XD i possess about 1100... that's why they call me freaky XD

the last thing i have read was tenjo tenge vol 16... ah it was great!!!however, i have admit that the series gets confusing in many things but it can be because the last volume was released in january. i really have to read all volumes again and catch up the content...

1100 mangas?
i feel so....... poor!! yes!! that the word! jaja i have... 7 mangas!! jajajaa
the last i read was Death Note 3!!
The manga it's the same as the anime!!! exactly the same!!!
Everyone say to me: why do you buy it?? you have it on your computer and you all ready saw the anime!!
but you know something: I DON'T CARE!!! i like L to much that i have to buy the manga, Plus!! it's no the same read the manga in the computer than have it on your hands! smelling the paper!!!
you most know about that stephie

yeah i know that...

to be honest i love to have the book/manga itself. im not such a fan of scanlations. the translators are doing a great job but i dunno reading on the pc is not very comfortable...

i also have Death note and it is a great series. I know that the anime is NEARLY the same as the Manga but the story is so great that I'm watching the anime and reading the manga. The ending isnt the same either... so you really should read it XD I'm also a fan of L. but i also like NEAR... mello is too freaky from my point of view but i like the part he plays for the "catching" of kira. i have never been expecting this.... also the madness of kira/light is very cool...

near is weird too!!!
he is so smart!
and he have white hair!!!
that's weird...
how old is he? 75??

jajaja i think mello looks like willy wonka.....

i waaaaant more mangas!!! i neeeed money Y_Y

i want more to but only horrible mangas get released T___T
the market get flooded with shonen ai!!! i hate shonen ai so much dont ask me why but i cannot stand it. the stories are horrible and they are mostly bad drawn T__T

I love Near he is so cool. now that you mention it... melllo really looks like willy wonka XD

well...... I always thought of Near as weird... I don't like hime...
I have to admit, my favorite was Light - all the way through

@ steffi... gosh, that's an extensive collection you got...
I love manga too, but you're right, there are no good releases right now.

But anyway, I have to spend my money for books for university T_T
and I have to buy a lot..... but I simply love the smell of new books ^O^
Friends have told me it's weird, to smell a book........ but I have to do it, open it and take a deep breath.
Right now I'm going through my Hemingway collection. It's not as exciting as manga - I know - but I love his style of writing.
And if I'm through with the next Hemingway, I'll read Cortázar's Rayuela

near isnt weird... I liked the japanese voice of near

there was a time when i was buying nearly every new series but i guess this time will never come back. *thinking on the shonen ai stories*

im reading harry potter 7, scar night, victim right now. it depends on my mood... T___T but i really have to read some books to the end soon...

hemmingway is way better than shakespaer i dunno i dont like his writing style....

.... well...... I like Shakespeare..... *hides*
I think he used a wonderful language - if you try to read it more closely, you'll be amazed by what he has written.
just think of my favorite sentence of Hamlet "But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."
I simply love it.....
sure, I might be influenced by my studies. If I wouldn't like Shakespeare, I'd have a serious problem .... considering that I just wrote a paper about Hamlet >_>

to Harry Potter - is it better to read that in English? because I once took a glimpse through the 5th book - in German - and I somehow liked the style... couldn't stop reading for like 10 pages

something I forgot to write last time... my favorite books so far are by Paulo Coelho. I got nearly everything he has written, and it's soooo good no matter if I read it in English or German.

i like the english potter books more... the cover looks better (but only the adult version one) and it is better to read... but it is only my opinion...
in general i like the english version of a book most... i dunno in german something is missing

I also prefer English versions of books.
But have you tried reading a Spanish book (you understand Spanish ne?), it is something totally different, it feels different

What is also interesting for me is to see the translations of English books. I once read a book in German, and then in English (>_> can't remember which it was), and English was so much more easy to understand.
hahaha.... I just love that language

Next thing I'm going to read is Rayuela, but in German, since it is so thick, and I have only like 1 week time....... It's a book where you don't read in chronological order. Means that after chapter 6 comes 23 and then 14 or so....... seems to be interesting at least I hope so.

i finished harry potter 7 awhile ago... i dont know the end of voldemort was a lot like "i want to finish this book"... sorry when i understood it wrong...

right now im reading chris mooney's the missing. it is fantastic!!!!
great story and of course i like the writing style *___*
only 40 sites are missing to finish this book and then i have to read this other book until the end...

ah... I haven't told you about the fairy tales I was reading lately.... Andalusian fairy tales.

they were quite interesting, good to read, but unusual.......... from fairytales you're expecting a happy ending, ne - well most of these ended with unhappy, lonely, sad characters, the prince did not get the princess XD

and quite obvious was the tone against Christianity, since most of the tales were from those time were Andalusia was still Islamic (which was until 1492 btw...... just showing off my knowledge gained in my studies ^^)

interested... do i have to order it from somewhere or is it available in every bookstore??? is the german title the same???

maybe i should buy the english version


im reading scar night until the end now... i hope i can read a better book after that.... T___T there is no movement on the last 150 pages... im simply bored. the whole book begun so amazing but now... T__T

do you mean Rayuela or the fairy tales??? XD

well if you mean Rayuela - that's the original Spanish title. In English it is Hopscotch, and in German Rayuela: Himmel und Hölle
you can easily order it via amazon.

but I tell you it is quite confusing. Only the first 56 chapters are concerned with the actual story - the rest ( until chapter 155) is... well those are anecdotes, quotes, thoughts, newspaper reports.... etc. Sometimes they build a contrast to the chapter you read before, sometimes they help you understand things you will read in further chapters...... You really have to think why he (Cortázar) leads the reader to that chapter.

(the fairytales I got in a restseller store - but I think you mean the other one ^^*)

i finished this book... im so happy that finally it is over but a lot of questions are still not solved...as it seems i have to read the second one too... i hope that it will be better as the first one...

right now im reading Shattered Icon by Bill Napier and it is a good book. However, Im at page 54 so it can change soon. (Scar Night was like that, too)
But i really dont hope so T__T

Actually i dont like such books but the story sounded interesting (and it is). In my opinion it is hard to find new books which are really good and have their own style. Right now the market gets flooded by Dan-Brown-wannabes and it bores me like hell.

I read a lot of books of Dan brown, he is a good Author
the problem is I read Digital Fortress and this one is as you may know about computer and codes

he made many mistakes and the whole stuff was exaggerated
hope there is more thruth in the other ones

at the moment I'm reading Harry Potter 7 the second time

I've finished reading my 650 pages book yesterday........ in less than one week... I'm so happy it's over now - well kind of... still have to write the paper about it

and now I have the same problem as always... what to read next.
Think I'll choose something for me this time, not for uni.... And the one in my hands right now is called "Oceano Mare - Das Märchen vom Wesen des Meeres" (a tale about the nature of the sea) - sounds interesting. ^^


XD seems like I'm reading a lot of tales right now.....

so I'm not the only one complaining about Digital Fortress

Harry Potter was really a bit streched end the end was a bit to short.
at least Harry could have had a longer fight with Voldemort

also there are a few Information missing in the End
I would like to know what Harry is working at in the Future

but nevertheless its a great work